Crucible Vocabulary

The capacity for lying

• deposition

• dissembling

• iniquity

• imperceptible

resolute; stubborn; unyielding

• corroborate

• subservient

• adamant

• ameliorate

Rude; insolent; bold

• deposition

• effrontery

• trepidation

• imperceptible

Corroborate

• planning with much thought

• submissive; obeying

• supportive evidence

• creating better choices

Because of Reverend Hale's ​ (a)   he quit the court after Act III, and then he offered ​ (b)   opposition to the court's goal by praying with those who were accused.

• creed

• formidable

• deposition

• ingratiating

• faction

• parochial

• vindictive

• perjury

• charity

To the Puritan Society of Salem, Sarah good, who did not attend church, appeared to be a ​ (a)   ​ .

• heathen

• persecuted

• paradox

• manifestation

• calumny

Match the following

• small, dissenting group among a larger

• ideology

• system of ideas which form a policy

• faction

• authoritative warning or order

• injunction

• attempt to make a thing false seem true

• pretense

• system of religious beliefs

• creed

Giles Corey sued many people in this society, including Proctor, for ​ (a)   which he felt might damage his reputation in the society.

• defamation

• deposition

• contention

• dissembling

• manifestation

Match the following

• dark or dull in color or tone

• insoluble

• person not part of widely-held religion

• heathen

• a preference for something

• somber

• realting to a church

• predilection

• impossible to solve

• parochial

Evil, wickedness

• iniquity

• trepidation

• dissembling

• contentious